Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...building did not open on schedule. Mayor Schaefer was a character. Mayor Edward Koch of New York was also a character. He once said he wasn't interested in running for Governor because there weren't any decent Chinese restaurants in Albany--a perfect mayor-as-character joke that turned less funny when he decided to run for Governor. In those days, urban dwellers preferred having a character as mayor because they figured that since a large American city was unmanageable anyway, they might as well have on hand someone who at least provided some entertainment...
...critics of public education are willing to express dissatisfaction with schools, but few can be prodded into proposing and expounding upon reform ideas. Suggest taking on a classroom for a year to them and you'll probably elicit a predictable response: hearty laughter as if the proposal was a joke. Even though education should be an all-encompassing investment, one in which every citizen nurtures, encourages and excites children by the process of learning, parents and the public at large rarely have a meaningful reciprocal relationship with the public school environment...
...cruel joke, the Republicans' dream is quickly becoming a nightmare. When the scandal broke and rapidly attracted O.J.-like levels of media attention, Newt, Trent and the other GOP power players smugly believed they could just sit back and let the President destroy himself. There didn't seem to be much sense in sullying oneself in the mud of dirty allegations when the job was already being done by a pack of loose-lipped lawyers and reporters who smelled blood...
Hunting's Southie friends joke about going to a bar in the Square (the Bow, as it turns out) and "----ing up some smart kids." And of course, once at the bar, Will meets a pompous grad student straight from central casting...
PARIS: Who would treat Diana's death as a joke? Answer: The French emergency services, according to the first witness to arrive on the scene of the princess's car crash last August. Eric Petel, who has only now been interviewed by investigators, says he rushed to a phone as soon as he came across the crushed Mercedes -- only to have the operator hang up on him. The operator "thought it was a joke and said 'we have no time for fun... this is an emergency number,'" Petel told Voici magazine Tuesday. Worse was to come when Petel took...